Arnold finds collaborating with Dutoit no different than working with an older, more experienced director.
"Honestly, it's just about the same as working with any other director who knows what they want. It's one of those things when you work with somebody who knows what they want. They know the vocabulary and the language. She could be 40 years old and be accomplished and there wouldn't be much of a difference, except that we can't have a Champagne toast!"
For The Record
Los Angeles Times Thursday, December 06, 2007 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 1 inches; 26 words Type of Material: Correction
Anne-Sophie Dutoit: An article in Saturday's Calendar section about Anne-Sophie Dutoit said the young filmmaker had won an award in Swansea, England. Swansea is in Wales.
Dutoit has been in front of the cameras performing since she was a 1-year-old who appeared in a commercial for Coke. When she was still young, the Santa Monica native and her family moved to Montreal.
"My parents wanted me to be like a kid," Dutoit says. But at 12, she yearned to return to acting and told her parents she wanted to move back to Los Angeles. "At 13, I started acting again and going to auditions," she explains.
She was inspired to write "Faded Memories" because she found most movies she was seeing to be boring. "I wanted to see another kind of movie," Dutoit says. "I started writing a movie I wanted to see and what my friends would want to see. I based my character on people I knew and feelings that I felt. Everybody kind of feels lonely in their life."
Dutoit's father, who had been a script doctor and content analyst for several Canadian film institutions, says that with "Faded Memories," he hopes her films will take off and she'll make a series of movies. "She is trying to change the teen market. She wants to make a difference. She even has some special-ed people in the movie. She has this ability to make things possible. She doesn't have 10 or 20 years' experience as to where the camera should be and how to deal with actors. But she has this organic approach and knows what she wants."
Dutoit had no problems, she says matter of factly, working both in front of and behind the camera. "I have monitors so I can check my performance. "I was really prepared for my part. I could easily get in my character and get out and just be me directing."
The film was shot over three weeks this summer in various locations in the Los Angeles area on high-definition video.
"I like to see my dailies," Dutoit says. "And I really love shooting with HD. For my other movie, I shot on Super 16 and that is totally a different process because you have to wait" to see dailies.
